The "public building service maintenance contracts" referred to in RCW
39.12.020 shall mean janitorial service contracts and cover only work performed by janitors, waxers, shampooers, and window cleaners.
For all building service maintenance contracts, the prevailing wage rates which are in effect on the date when the bids are required to be submitted to the contract awarding public agency are the minimum prevailing wage rates which must be paid for the first year of such contracts and thereafter. However, any building service maintenance contract of more than one year duration, must include wage increase language recognizing the potential for future variance in applicable prevailing wage(s) and specifying that the wages which a contractor shall pay its employees must be altered annually to recognize and follow the most recently promulgated increases in prevailing wages each year after the first year of the contract period. The cost of the increases in the wages due employees shall be borne by the contract awarding agency.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters
39.04 and
39.12 RCW and RCW
43.22.270. WSR 88-22-046 (Order 88-22), § 296-127-023, filed 10/31/88.]